David Maslanka
Remember Me
for Violoncello and Nineteen Musicians
17 min. •
2013
• Grade 5
About the Work
About the Edition
Remember Me is not a concerto in the traditional sense, but a single-movement, free-flowing fantasia.
This composition was inspired by my reading of a “relatively minor” Holocaust event – the extermination of 5,000 Jews in a small town – in William L. Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. An eye-witness description of a Jewish family about to be slaughtered – mother, father, 10-year-old son, grandmother gently bouncing a year-old baby and making it smile – forcefully riveted my mind and heart. This music is for the baby – a single death, through which it is possible to begin to experience the massive horror of the totality.
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